The Congress of South African Trade Union is demanding that government should fund Marikana victims’ legal costs.
Cosatu Spokesperson Patrick Craven said
workers and their families who were at the heart of the events being
investigated, but lack the money to pay legal fees, should not be unfairly
discriminated against.
Craven added that justice must be a right
and not a privilege.
He said that the government themselves
launched the inquiry, they are paying the legal costs of all government or state
employees like the SAPS.
“And it’s only natural justice that all
those that are implicated in the disaster should have equal access to the
commission,” added Craven
He also said that it serious danger that if
that is not the case and then final report will be seen as barest in favour of
those who did have the money for the legal cost.
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